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Shameless (UK)

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Shameless (UK)	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Shameless was a British TV series produced for Channel 4 which ran for eleven seasons between 2004 and 2013.Imagine the ultimate Crapsack World. Nobody has a job or career. Kids have lost their parents, or the parents simply just don't care. The Police are corrupt and incompetent. The houses and streets are shoddy and derelict. Assaults and burglaries are endemic, drugs and alcoholism are rife, people barely have enough money for food, and each day is a struggle. Sounds grim? Well, in 2004, writer Paul Abbott and others at Channel 4 planned to create a very dark drama about life in a 'sink estate' in Manchester.However... at some point in the gestation process, the team realised that what they had been planning could ALSO work as a comedy. And the rest is history.Shameless tells the story of the Gallaghers - a family of brothers and sisters, abandoned by their mother, having not only to bring themselves up, but also effectively keep tabs on their alcoholic, drug-addled father Frank. It introduces the viewer to a whole world of people living in a place many people would think was incompatible with any type of humour other than Gallows Humour. And yet, it remains one of the funniest things on British television in the last thirty years. This is due to a combination of scripts, acting and direction that has you laughing with these people, rather than laughing at them or pitying them.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Early seasons focus more closely on the Gallagher clan; later on, existing character roles have expanded, such as the notorious Maguire family, the local shop-owning Karib family, and seamstress turned pimp Lillian Tyler, and new ones added. Over time, many characters have come and gone, with oldest child Fiona leaving to be with boyfriend Steve, Frank's second wife Sheila going off to work on a cruise liner and the kids' mother Monica returning for two years before leaving again. And then coming back. And then leaving again. And then coming back again.A US adaptation of this series has been airing on the American cable network Showtime since January 2011, which is also shown in Britain under the auspices of Channel 4. Tropes and pages pertaining to that version of the show have been moved accordingly.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Now with a character page, which needs YOU.
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Shameless (UK) / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Shameless (UK) / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: The very good looking Sergeant Carrie Rogers. Her ridiculous obsession with her job makes one wonder if she actually gets off on it.
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Shameless (UK) / int_13b3655d	comment	Geographic Flexibility: From series 5 onwards, the series was filmed on a pre-built set instead of on-location, leading to a massive change to the Chatsworth Estate. The interiors such as the houses and The Jockey remain basically the same, but the changes to the exterior locations are jarring: The back of Windsor Gardens, which previously opened up onto an alleyway and then a road, now leads straight onto a road, which never has any traffic on it, ever. Passing cars become non-existent. Everything suddenly becomes a lot closer together; the roads seem really narrow, and the pavements look kind of fake. The estate lacks any obvious transport links to the rest of Manchester, and feels claustrophobic and gated off. The shop, previously being in the middle of a spacious, open parade, is now suddenly close to housing. The shops neighbouring the Karibs general store such as the chippy 'The Chatsworth Fryer' also suddenly close down and are never seen open again. We never see the front of the Gallaghers' house again, and Sheila's considerably nicer house on Eldon Way vanishes. Lillian goes from living in a nice semi-detached house similar to Sheila's (which can be seen in the episode where Frank pretends to be a window cleaner to avoid the wrath of his father Neville) to a rundown council house that later becomes the brothel. The row of semi-detached housing where the Gallaghers and the Maguires live drops from 4 houses to 3. The looming 60's tower blocks behind Windsor Gardens, a defining trait of any British council estate, completely disappear from the skyline.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Shameless (UK) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic B.S.O.D.: Marty collapses into a sobbing heap and stops responding to everyone around him after Kelly cancels their wedding. Actually quite a sorrowful scene - it then turns into a Thousand-Yard Stare where he fantasizes about setting everything on fire. When Frank loses his coat (part of his Limited Wardrobe) during a riotous pub lock-in, he suddenly plunges into a manic depressive identity crisis and completely loses the ability to party.
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Shameless (UK) / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
Shameless (UK) / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Norma - a big, black Geordie trucker who lives in a caravan on the Gallagher's front garden in series 4-6.
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Shameless (UK) / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Shameless (UK) / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: The three Maguire brothers, in particular, Shane and Micky's clownish attempts to live up to their superiors Jamie and Paddy within the business. It's gradually revealed over time that Shane and Jamie actually deeply resent and disrespect each other, which leads to Shane trying to scalp money on Jamie's own turf, including clamping cars to piss him off.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Shameless (UK) / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Handsome, toned and muscular Carl Gallagher. Along with his physique, the amount of topless shots he gets throughout Shameless is way out of proportion compared to everybody else. Ian Gallagher gets several sex scenes with different men, complete with nudity.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Shameless (UK) / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Mandy and Ian pose as a young, happy couple to keep Ian's sexuality a secret. To add authenticity, Lip steps in and starts having regular, loud sex with Mandy in their bedroom while Ian hides in the wardrobe. Yvonne is also this to Kash of course, however she doesn't find out for quite a while.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1c0dbffc	type	Pyromaniac
Shameless (UK) / int_1c0dbffc	comment	Pyro Maniac: Marty, who burns down part of the pub, a car, a hearse (complete with coffin and body), his mums house, and probably other stuff. Liam has shown frequent hints of this behaviour after Marty left the cast, with boxes of matches and lighter fluid been found regularly in his bed.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1c2c6e08	type	Ignoring by Singing
Shameless (UK) / int_1c2c6e08	comment	Ignoring by Singing: Tony turns around, sticks his fingers in his ears and starts merrily humming to himself while the Gallaghers discuss their tax evasion and lack of MOT. It's implied that he routinely does this.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Shameless (UK) / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Shane and Jackson form an unlikely long-term partnership and enterprise, selling expired food stock to various local businesses.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Shameless (UK) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: A very surreal moment towards the end of the series 6 finales has Frank address the audience by knocking on the camera lens and talking about fairytales beginning and ending. Its set in black and white and is a very strange and out there moment. It's repeated with Mandy's...ghost or angel I guess during her funeral. In the last episoder of series 11, when Frank goes to leave his family, the camera style changes and he addresses us directly, like he does in the openings of each episode, with him philosophically ranting about his children.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
Shameless (UK) / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: When Debbie goes on strike, Lip tries to win her over with a box of super-cute kittens.
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Shameless (UK) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shameless (UK) / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Social services, school inspectors, some of the less understanding police...
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Shameless (UK) / int_2012b2de	type	Naughty by Night
Shameless (UK) / int_2012b2de	comment	Naughtyby Night: Sheila. By day she's a sweet agoraphobic and germaphobic housewife. But at night she is very very into pegging filthy alcoholic Frank.
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Shameless (UK) / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Shameless (UK) / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Most all caregivers in the show, but Frank, Monica, and Sheila might as well be the poster children for this trope.
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Shameless (UK) / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Shameless (UK) / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Steve is a dapper, highly educated, upper-class car thief, who prides himself on stealing from people who deserve it, as well as never having committed a violent crime. His upbringing is about as far away from crime and the lower classes as you can get.
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Shameless (UK) / int_21776103	type	Incest Is Relative
Shameless (UK) / int_21776103	comment	Incest Is Relative: Poor Ian. He finally finds Mister Right, and then, he finds out that they're half-brothers. Oh, and this was after they'd had sex. Letitia and D, who turn out to be half-siblings thanks to a mistake daddy Jackson made a few decades ago. Dom and Gloria Meak. The tragedy being that the chemistry between the two is perfect, but the odd nature of their relationship means they have to keep it hidden. This leads to Gloria walking out on Dominic and disappearing from Chatsworth permanently, out of confusion and anguish.
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Shameless (UK) / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
Shameless (UK) / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: Eleven series. That's an awful lot for a British TV show (compare British Brevity) and puts it closer to Last of the Summer Wine than most (although of course that is a very different kind of show.
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Shameless (UK) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Shameless (UK) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Virtually everyone in the Shameless universe is corrupt or just nasty in general, particularly in the later series; police, priests, soldiers, doctors, the Women's Institute... Families like the Gallaghers and Maguires seem normal in comparison. Everybody gets shat on from a great height at some stage, and Karma Houdinis are non-existent.
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Shameless (UK) / int_227f74e1	type	Hollywood Tourette's
Shameless (UK) / int_227f74e1	comment	Hollywood Tourette's: Marty, but later learns to say things like spongecake and buttermilk instead of swearing. Only for a court case. He goes back to normal the following series.
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Shameless (UK) / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Shameless (UK) / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: 15 year old Debbie Gallagher embarks on a secret romance with the 27 year old PC Tom O'Leary, which predictably ends in tears. 16 year old Lip also gets regular action from Lina, a nurse at least twenty years his senior. And of course, the happily married couple Mimi and Billy Tutton, with over 25 years difference between them. Elicits the same question multiple times from various pubgoers: 15 year old Karen and 44 year old Frank have a torrid, sexually-charged affair behind everyone's back in the first series.
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Shameless (UK) / int_2507ad6b	type	Accidental Pornomancer
Shameless (UK) / int_2507ad6b	comment	Accidental Pornomancer: Frank Gallagher due to his Kavorka Man tendencies.
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Shameless (UK) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Shameless (UK) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Often, especially when the Maguires are around. Lip delivers one to his own father Frank, for having an affair with Karen. Jamie Maguire delivers one to Joe Pritchard for beating Mandy, violating his parole. His mother Mimi later takes the rap to prevent him from being sent down again and gets sent to prison herself for GBH. Carl lays the smackdown on Ian, after finding out that Ian and Maxine are in love with each other, almost ruining Carl and Ian's relationship for good.
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Shameless (UK) / int_2562da69	type	Great Escape
Shameless (UK) / int_2562da69	comment	Great Escape: Marty breaks out for his sisters wedding, and gets sent back shortly afterwards.
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Shameless (UK) / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Shameless (UK) / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Chesney knocks out his dad Kash, just as the back of the shop erupts into flames. He leaves his dad's comatose body and escapes from the shop. It is assumed, but never actually confirmed, that Kash died in the fire.
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Shameless (UK) / int_28604695	type	Rogue Juror
Shameless (UK) / int_28604695	comment	Rogue Juror: Frank becomes one when he discovers he can claim extra benefits as long as he is on jury service. From that point onward, he tries to drag the deliberation for as long as possible, continually reversing his opinion whenever he cleverly convinces everyone to see things his way.
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Shameless (UK) / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Shameless (UK) / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Tough matriarch Patty starts thinking about how badly she treated her estranged daughter Libby, and while wondering where Libby is now she begins to shed tears. The trope is even lampshaded by Frank.
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Shameless (UK) / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Shameless (UK) / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: This is Frank's specialty, often overlapping with Never My Fault. A great one is when he's doing a TV interview in the first series: Also after Billy gets a job as a salesman.
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Shameless (UK) / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Shameless (UK) / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Frank wears the same crappy raincoat and blue jeans for what seems like decades.
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Shameless (UK) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Shameless (UK) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Kev's demented, knife-wielding estranged wife Roxy Ball.
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Shameless (UK) / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Shameless (UK) / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Lip discovers on his 18th birthday that he's actually 19, because Frank et al forgot to officially register his birth for an entire year. When Lip angrily asks what they were doing instead that was so important to make them forget:
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Shameless (UK) / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Shameless (UK) / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Monica Gallagher is beside herself with anxiety when she isn't creating needless drama and hysteria.
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Shameless (UK) / int_38d3a0f7	type	Pac-Man Fever
Shameless (UK) / int_38d3a0f7	comment	Pac Man Fever: Played straight in early seasons where characters are seen playing with Xbox controllers with sound effects from Donkey Kong. Averted in later seasons with characters playing more up to date titles with Xbox Live's voice chat even being used to find Liam when he gets taken into care.
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Shameless (UK) / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Shameless (UK) / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Steve Mc Bride, who is very obviously a womanizing jerkass at first glance. He does succeed in winning over Fiona Gallagher though, after a metric fuckton of effort.
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Shameless (UK) / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Shameless (UK) / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: All the time. Faked deaths, car chases, terrible disguises, random robberies. You name it, somebody's tried to do it in order to either as a Get Rich Quick Scheme, or simply to avoid attention from the authorities. A notable example in the early series, when young Debbie steals a baby, sees most of the Gallagher family plotting out timed phone calls and planned drop-offs with almost military precision.
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Shameless (UK) / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Shameless (UK) / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Karen, after giving Dom a good bitchslap across the bar:
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Shameless (UK) / int_3f238526	type	No Smoking
Shameless (UK) / int_3f238526	comment	No Smoking: From 2007 smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces. The first episode of the series started with everyone partying outside The Jockey (with their own beer) until they decided to flout the ban. A good proportion of the shows adults are seen smoking. Truth in Television, as smoking is still very common in urban communities, despite the efforts of governments across the world to outlaw it.
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Shameless (UK) / int_438cb385	type	Overprotective Dad
Shameless (UK) / int_438cb385	comment	Overprotective Dad: Lip breaks his ankle, jumping out of an upstairs window to escape the wrath of Karen's furious father Eddie, after he catches her sucking Ian off under the dining table. Lip, once again, has seven shades of shit beaten out of him by Paddy Maguire, when it emerges that Lip is the father of Mandy's baby.
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Shameless (UK) / int_46d3f869	type	Family Business
Shameless (UK) / int_46d3f869	comment	Family Business: The Maguire family run a highly illegal business dealing in drugs, guns and other hot contraband throughout the estate. The business allows them to be as powerful as they are throughout the series. Big bosses Mimi and Paddy also look down severely on any of their sons attempting to break away from the business, which all three of the Maguire brothers do at some point or another.
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Shameless (UK) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Shameless (UK) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Chatsworth is practically a village full of them. Micky and Shane, aka Scooby and Shaggy according to Mimi, or Pongo and Coco to Paddy. Carl spends his early teenage years reviled, patronized and ignored by all of his siblings, even the younger ones. Eventually, he grows into an alpha male family patriarch as more of the Gallaghers leave.
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Shameless (UK) / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Shameless (UK) / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: In series two, Veronica gets a temporary bar from the Jockey and tries to sneak back in in disguise on two separate occasions. The first time, she wears a wig. The second, she dons a flat cap, moustache and big coat and masquerades as an old man. On both occasions she gets caught, but not as quickly as she would have done in real life. Frank also escapes some debt collectors by dressing very unconvincingly as a woman. A Running Gag here is Frank routinely dressing up as the late Brendan Tyler to satisfy benefits officers.
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Shameless (UK) / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Shameless (UK) / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Ian goes on sabbatical for several episodes during series 6, after recovering from a savage assault.
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Shameless (UK) / int_4a0ec47a	type	Cheshire Cat Grin
Shameless (UK) / int_4a0ec47a	comment	Cheshire Cat Grin: Frank pulls the biggest, most deviously shit-eating smile ever, when he catches Patty lying about her disability. Almost happier than he's ever been in his entire life beforehand!
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Shameless (UK) / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Shameless (UK) / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Frank Gallagher is a filthy, selfish, violent alcoholic, a pathetic, degenerate waste of space. The worst, most feckless father in the world, with a criminal record, no job and not a penny to his name. Despite this, he effortlessly snags three different wives who all fall head over heels in love with him, and has many drunk, drugged up sexual trysts with various women in and out of the estate. Not to mention procreating and spreading his genes ten different times of course. Actually eleven: he fathers a child with Monica's mother at one of Monica's birthday parties. As demented as Monica, Sheila and Libby may all be, they do eventually realize that he's a useless waster after spending enough time with him. Still, it's pretty shocking that Frank gets so far in the first place.
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Shameless (UK) / int_51300dbf	type	FatBastard
Shameless (UK) / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Played straight with drug dealer Mimi Maguire in the early series, but after the Maguires became 3-dimensional main characters as opposed to just nasty antagonists (resulting in more sides to Mimi's character being shown), this trope didn't apply as well. Especially as actor Tina Malone went on to lose a shit-ton of weight from series 6 onwards, which itself is lampshaded.
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Shameless (UK) / int_5141fc93	type	Forgot to Pay the Bill
Shameless (UK) / int_5141fc93	comment	Forgot to Pay the Bill: A frequent occurrence. It is set on a Council Estate after all.
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Shameless (UK) / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
Shameless (UK) / int_535156bc	comment	Christmas Special: but a very weird one - Lip and Kev steal a load of knock-off meat to sell on the cheap, then it turns out the meat is a biohazard, so the Military quarantine the entire estate.
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Shameless (UK) / int_53d2d85	type	"Last Supper" Steal
Shameless (UK) / int_53d2d85	comment	"Last Supper" Steal: The dinner scene at the end of the first series Christmas special.
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Shameless (UK) / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
Shameless (UK) / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: Frank ends up throwing Mandy's ashes all over the pub floor for shits and giggles during her wake. Kev's mother's ashes end up all over the Jockey's floor during a fight between Veronica and Roxy. Debbie manages to scoop up the majority of them with a crisp packet.
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Shameless (UK) / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Shameless (UK) / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Ian suffers amnesia in series 6 after getting ran over in the street by a gangster, and spends a few episodes rediscovering his identity. He's more or less back to normal by the end of the series though.
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Shameless (UK) / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Shameless (UK) / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Especially when Frank is around. At least four of his kids utter the simple-yet-devastating "You're a cunt" at him at various stages, all out of utter frustration and anger at what a useless twat he is.
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Shameless (UK) / int_56f083a1	type	Likes Older Women
Shameless (UK) / int_56f083a1	comment	Likes Older Women: Billy Tutton
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Shameless (UK) / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Shameless (UK) / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: In one episode a cop is accusing Lip of assault, so they try to bribe him. He takes the bribe to drop the charge of bribing a police officer.
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Shameless (UK) / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
Shameless (UK) / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Shane Maguire smokes like a chimney throughout the whole series, and is especially adept at blowing smoke rings, flicking butts and lighting up at a ridiculously fast pace.
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Shameless (UK) / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Shameless (UK) / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Psychotic killer gangster and patriarch Jamie Maguire is deathly afraid of clowns; being reduced to a shivering, crying wreck when Karen tries to make love with him dressed as one. Kev and Veronica gear up for an epic holiday to Ibiza, only for it to be stopped in its tracks because Kev's afraid of flying. Veronica attempts to help him conquer his fear by having sex near the airport, but Kev completely freaks out and pisses his trousers at the sight of a low-flying airplane directly overhead.
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Shameless (UK) / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Shameless (UK) / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Dom Meak - priest in denial, serial philanderer and ladykiller of women of all ages, including teenagers. Not only is he handsome, but he's also extremely intelligent, upper-class and an effortless seducer. Lip is also shown from day one as a womanizing sex maniac, and he becomes even more reckless in his sexual pursuits after getting screwed around by Karen. Paddy disparagingly refers to him as "Philip 'Shagger' Gallagher". His younger brother Carl eventually lives up to Lip too, with series 3-8 chronicling Carl's evolution from Casanova Wannabe to Chick Magnet.
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Shameless (UK) / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
Shameless (UK) / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: Micky Maguire. Paddy's gangland rival Roscoe.
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Shameless (UK) / int_5fb5be92	type	Spot of Tea
Shameless (UK) / int_5fb5be92	comment	Spot of Tea: The only thing anyone drinks that isn't booze.
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Shameless (UK) / int_60b166be	type	Reformed Criminal
Shameless (UK) / int_60b166be	comment	Reformed Criminal: Jamie Maguire, after spending ten years in prison for murder, acquires an honest job working behind the bar at The Jockey, and resists having anything to do with his family's business, despite their peer pressure.
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Shameless (UK) / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Shameless (UK) / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One!:
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Shameless (UK) / int_6220c00d	type	Pædo Hunt
Shameless (UK) / int_6220c00d	comment	Pædo Hunt: Frank rouses up a dangerous, rather hysterical lynch mob on the estate after someone's baby is stolen (by Debbie of all people).
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Shameless (UK) / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Shameless (UK) / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: When Mimi continually taunts young Ruby about her junkie father, she has an out of character Villainous Breakdown; proceeding to hold a knife to Mimi's throat before binding and gagging her and taking her hostage upstairs.
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Shameless (UK) / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Shameless (UK) / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Kelly gives plenty of these when a rival brothel opens up across the road from Lillians.
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Shameless (UK) / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Shameless (UK) / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Jockey landlady Jez. Also copper Tony, whose surname we are never told.
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Shameless (UK) / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
Shameless (UK) / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: Frank drinks an entire bottle of dodgy bootleg vodka, only to go almost completely blind the next morning. Contrary to what you'd might think, his family and friends all find this absolutely hilarious. There's also various episodes where Frank overdoses on random combinations of spirits and unknown pills, with disastrous results all around.
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Shameless (UK) / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Shameless (UK) / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: In the final episode of series 11, Frank arrives back from prison after several months to discover that Monica has given birth to their seventh child together (and Frank's tenth child overall). Mary Mae is also shown to be pregnant with Chesney's baby.
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Shameless (UK) / int_6dd49338	type	Invisible President
Shameless (UK) / int_6dd49338	comment	Invisible President: Chesney's granddad - master patriarch and bank-roller of the Karib family and its businesses. We never find out his name and he is never seen, but he is mentioned in several episodes as Chesney battles to run the shop independently.
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Shameless (UK) / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Shameless (UK) / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: see No Smoking below
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Shameless (UK) / int_714019ac	type	Coffin Contraband
Shameless (UK) / int_714019ac	comment	Coffin Contraband: In episode #8.14, a coffin is carried through the estate, supposedly with Paddy inside, but it turns out this was Paddy's way of smuggling guns to the rest of the Maguires.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
Shameless (UK) / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: Most of the characters shoplift whenever they get a chance - at one point Frank steals (among other things) a charity collection tin. Or when the barstaff get trapped in the cellar by a broken door by the time they get out the stools and tables are gone.
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Shameless (UK) / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Shameless (UK) / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: So many with Shameless that it's best to divide them up into a few categories. Each of the 'original' Gallagher children leave as they grow older and find opportunities outside of the estate: Fiona flees at the end of series 2 to live with Steve on the run in Amsterdam, taking her and Craig Garland's baby with her. Lip leaves at the beginning of series 5 to attend university in Nottingham permanently, when it becomes clear he can't reconcile his home and university lives. Off-screen, he later moves to London to train as an architect, and daughter Katie goes to join him after Mandy's death. Debbie joins the army off-screen between series 6 and 7 and is apparently sent to Afghanistan. Ian vanishes at the end of series 7 while driving off to dump Joe Pritchard's corpse and is never heard from again. Liam leaves Chatsworth in series 8 to live with Monica, to prevent her getting her hands on and ruining baby Stella's life. He later writes a poignant letter to Carl, stating that he does not plan to return. Carl successfully graduates as a police officer in series 9, and leaves the estate not long afterwards to live with his girlfriend Clem. Series 11, especially the finale, finally gives some (limited) closure to all of these exits. Fiona, Lip and Carl return; it's revealed Fiona and Steve are living back in the UK with their son, and things have presumably calmed down a bit with Steve being a gangland target and all. Lip works as a surveyor's assistant for the council, struggling to raise Katie as a single parent with a pithy income. Carl is still plodding along in the police force. The fates of the remaining Gallaghers are also mentioned briefly: Ian is 'marrying a tranny' having presumably got away with Joe's murder, Debbie is still in Afghanistan, and Liam is now 'getting his act together' (although from what exactly is not explained) by becoming a practicing Buddhist. Kev and Veronica are jailed in series 4 for attempting to buy an orphaned baby in Romania. Marty smuggles said orphan back to Chatsworth, and he also leaves the estate with Sue to raise it. Kev eventually returns, apparently a free man, on separate occasions in series 8 and 11, although Veronica is only alluded to and its not really made clear whether they're still together or not. Marty returns with Carol's ashes after years living in Spain and having split up with Sue. Sheila goes to work on a cruise ship and takes Nigel and Delia with her. Monica comes and goes from Chatsworth numerous times. Yvonne has to leave Chatsworth in series 7, when she owed Paddy Maguire money, but came back finally in the last episode of series 11, presumably able to come back now since Paddy is long gone; we don't see Stan with her, so it's unknown if they are still together. Meena never gets a proper sending-off scene and is practically forgotten about after series 6, however it is assumed she fled to Spain with Yvonne and Stan. Her name is signed in a card Yvonne sends to Chesney later on. Jockey landlady Jez abruptly goes on maternity leave in series 4, and never returns. Her replacement, Carol, is only there for the short-term before also disappearing, with pub takings, never to be heard from again. Neither character gets a proper exit or goodbye scene.
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Shameless (UK) / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Shameless (UK) / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Karen and Joe during their affair behind Jamie's back. Karen can't resist shagging Joe any moment she can, but keeps trying to break it all off immediately afterwards out of confusion and fear. Joe on the other hand doesn't mind this, and simply enjoys dominating and fucking with Karen's emotions as much as possible. Possibly the least-conventional coupling ever, but eventually, they do finally admit their feelings for each other, leading to them skipping town with baby Connor.
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Shameless (UK) / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Shameless (UK) / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Kelly Ball. Hearts melt every time she shares a birds-and-the-bees scene with Liam or Aidan.
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Shameless (UK) / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Shameless (UK) / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Dominic and Gloria Meak - two characters first seen in Series 9, who are meant to have been there all along, and known to all the other people in the Chatsworth. Micky and Shane fall under this too, since they both start randomly appearing, and named, around series 3 and 4 as if they were just one of the other previous Maguire brothers that routinely appeared. They are never introduced as new characters, in the way that Jamie is. Instead, it's treated as if they had been following Paddy and Mimi the whole time.
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Shameless (UK) / int_77dd4ff0	type	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
Shameless (UK) / int_77dd4ff0	comment	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: Jackson starts off as a proud, middle-class, highly educated high school teacher. After losing his job in the midst of a finance audit, he resorts to becoming a scummy, unemployed street hustler working expired food scams with Shane Maguire.
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Shameless (UK) / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Shameless (UK) / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Frank regularly either falls off, gets punched off or gets shoved off his stool at The Jockey, often resulting in a faceplant and a few hours of unconsciousness. His nose also gets broken at least once per season. Mimi scalds her son Micky by throwing a pot of boiling hot chilli all over his head, in a moment of madness. Shane going to shake Billy's hand, only to leap up like a grasshopper and smash his nose with a well-aimed headbutt.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Shameless (UK) / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Frank, after barely surviving his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Lip that he earned from shagging Karen.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Shameless (UK) / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Where sex is concerned, everybody fucks everybody without the least bit of restraint or guilt.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
Shameless (UK) / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: The U.S. version.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Shameless (UK) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Quite a few over the course of the 11 series-long programme. Frank delivers one to God himself when he falsely believes that Liam has cancer.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Shameless (UK) / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Svetlana's entire relationship with Mickey, but especially her attempts to force him to break up with Ian. Her only real leverage in dealing with him is the threat of outing him to Terry. Even if she did successfully split Mickey and Ian up she would be stuck married to an angry, bitter, closeted gay guy with limited control over his violent impulses. Terry has made it clear that he feels little real affection for her beyond his belief that she is keeping Mickey "straight". If Mickey started beating her it is highly unlikely that Terry or anyone else would come to her aid.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7f2427a6	type	Dawson Casting
Shameless (UK) / int_7f2427a6	comment	Dawson Casting: Played straight in several cases and interestingly used in another. An adult plays a 14/15 yr-old boy, but the audience, like a certain character, is led to believe he is a young adult, with his true age being a shock. In-universe, he's Younger Than He Looks.
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Shameless (UK) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Shameless (UK) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: When Frank first appears in episode 1, he's a wasted and passed out corpse, being carried into the kitchen by police officers at an ungodly hour of the morning.
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Shameless (UK) / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Frank, who is pretty much the show's defining alcoholic.
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Shameless (UK) / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
Shameless (UK) / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: Did you expect anything less from a sink estate like Chatsworth? 14 year old Carl is routinely ridiculed and berated by his brothers for his sexual frustration and neediness. When he eventually pops his cherry with a local chavette, he is finally ingratiated by Lip and Ian, who pat him on the back and share a spliff with him in celebration. Subverted with Debbie, who isn't an overtly sexual person, but is peer pressured into shagging random, ugly lads on the street by her rubbish mum Monica. Unlike Carl, there are no celebrations to be had when she loses her virginity to paedo policeman Tom. Actually, she loses her virginity to oddball religious freak Luke (or at least it's heavily implied), but the Tom storyline is definitely her first real relationship, and probably the first time anyone seriously considers Debbie having... hooked up a power coupling.
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Shameless (UK) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Shameless (UK) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Just what happened to Kash after he was left for dead in Yvonne's shop?
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Shameless (UK) / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
Shameless (UK) / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: All six of Frank's older children go through this phase at some point or another, culminating in every single one of them eventually ditching Frank and Chatsworth for a better life elsewhere.
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Shameless (UK) / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Shameless (UK) / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: For all his massive, unavoidable flaws, Frank Gallagher became rather popular with Channel 4 viewers, and his flanderization to some kind of unsung political prophet/working class poet, especially towards the end of the series, reflects this.
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Shameless (UK) / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Shameless (UK) / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Professional car thief Steve goes through several flash BM Ws, Mercs and Jeeps, which always look incredibly suspicious when parked anywhere near the Chatsworth estate.
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Shameless (UK) / int_8cb1a369	type	TookALevelInJerkass
Shameless (UK) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Debbie during her storyline with Tom. After breaking up with him she constantly assumes the worse of everything he does, accuses him of being a stalker (though in fairness, he may very well have been stalking her), and in general becomes far more easily annoyed and selfish then previously.
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Shameless (UK) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Shameless (UK) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Several of these throughout Shameless, usually the last of any particular season. The Series 10 finale ends with Ruby murdered and buried in a shallow grave, Patty committing suicide at a freezing cold beach on the Mersey, and Jackson walking out on Avril for good.
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Shameless (UK) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Shameless (UK) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: After Patty is ousted as a perfectly-healthy benefits fraud, she spends only a few days out in the open, freely walking and running around, before slipping down the stairs and breaking her spine, leaving her disabled for real.
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Shameless (UK) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Shameless (UK) / int_927b2f11	comment	Series 11, especially the finale, finally gives some (limited) closure to all of these exits. Fiona, Lip and Carl return; it's revealed Fiona and Steve are living back in the UK with their son, and things have presumably calmed down a bit with Steve being a gangland target and all. Lip works as a surveyor's assistant for the council, struggling to raise Katie as a single parent with a pithy income. Carl is still plodding along in the police force. The fates of the remaining Gallaghers are also mentioned briefly: Ian is 'marrying a tranny' having presumably got away with Joe's murder, Debbie is still in Afghanistan, and Liam is now 'getting his act together' (although from what exactly is not explained) by becoming a practicing Buddhist.
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Shameless (UK) / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Shameless (UK) / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Fiona, Lip, Carl, Kev, Yvonne, and Monica returned for the finale in series 11. Passing references are also made to Steve, Ian, Debbie, and Liam, as a nice bonus and Continuity Nod.
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Shameless (UK) / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Shameless (UK) / int_952d21ec	comment	Kev and Veronica are jailed in series 4 for attempting to buy an orphaned baby in Romania. Marty smuggles said orphan back to Chatsworth, and he also leaves the estate with Sue to raise it. Kev eventually returns, apparently a free man, on separate occasions in series 8 and 11, although Veronica is only alluded to and its not really made clear whether they're still together or not. Marty returns with Carol's ashes after years living in Spain and having split up with Sue.
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Shameless (UK) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Shameless (UK) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Shane takes a pop at his dad Paddy, but promptly gets punched in the face and knocked to the ground. He doesn't give up though, and keeps getting up for more. With each punch Paddy throws at his son, in full view of all the pub patrons, the more he despairs at his actions. After a bloodied, battered, dying Shane is carted off to hospital, he finally loses his sanity and scream bloody murder at all the astonished pubgoers.
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Shameless (UK) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Shameless (UK) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Frank is a lifelong shirker who defines this trope. In particular, when Liam and Stella are snatched and fostered off by social services, Ian, Carl and Debbie are left devastated and heartbroken. However, Frank remarks 'Fiona would've kept it together!', jerkassedly blaming the three of them personally, for failing to prevent social services from gaining a foothold, rather than his own failure to actually be a parent.
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Shameless (UK) / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Shameless (UK) / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": First one occurs when the Army storm Chatsworth and lock the whole estate down, with everyone inside. Second one is when Carol grasses up Lillian for benefit fraud, word gets out, and Jez lets slip in the Jockey that 'half the fucking estate' is fraudulently claiming benefits, leading to a mass invasion of DSS personnel and subsequent mass panic. Third one is when housing officers invade the estate and serve eviction notices en masse, forcing mass refugees into The Jockey.
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Shameless (UK) / int_993cf18f	type	Not So Different
Shameless (UK) / int_993cf18f	comment	Not So Different: In universe, Frank's opening monologue from series 11 reveals he thinks beneath the class and wealth differences he situation isn't a million miles away from... Her Royal Highness.
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Shameless (UK) / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
Shameless (UK) / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: Despite unfettered access to gorgeous, wealthy college students, Lip becomes disinterested with them, and falls in love with the jobless, lower-class Mandy.
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Shameless (UK) / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
Shameless (UK) / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: The series is set in a sink estate in deepest, darkest Manchester.
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Shameless (UK) / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Shameless (UK) / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Sheila - a pill-popping, agoraphobic sex-maniac.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Shameless (UK) / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The whole storyline involving Sheila's deceased ex-husband Sheldon is a massive homage to Brookside's infamous body-under-the-patio storyline. It even gets a Shout-Out from Frank. According to The Other Wiki, this is Truth in Television. When Karen gets ran over by a car at a bus stop, she wakes up in 1973 with glam rock/disco clothes and a mean afro. Unlike DCI Sam Tyler, she quickly decides to get hit by a car again.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Shameless (UK) / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Carl accidentally kills Brendan Tyler, in the most embarrassing way possible, when a gun he's carrying goes off after he trips over and faceplants.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
Shameless (UK) / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: Most series end with a party in the Jockey.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a4177d4e	type	AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks
Shameless (UK) / int_a4177d4e	comment	All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks: After losing her shop to a fire and a flood, Yvonne has trouble raising funds to rebuild her shattered empire and seeks help from Paddy Maguire. His aggressive actions cause her to sell the shop to Joe and flee to Spain. One of Paddy's first appearances has him and two of the early Maguire brothers violently beating someone who owes him money. And laughing like a lunatic.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Shameless (UK) / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays appears, walking his dog, during an episode where Shane and Micky run a Madchester Tour scam. Ricky Hatton shows up in one episode in a post-credit sequence.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Shameless (UK) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Kelly Ball, Norma (to an extent), the entire Maguire family.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a6bf7a7b	type	Ambulance Chaser
Shameless (UK) / int_a6bf7a7b	comment	Ambulance Chaser: A pair of them get Frank to sue Yvonne, and when he drops the case out of peer pressure, he gets a bill from them for a thousand pounds.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Shameless (UK) / int_a6e8221e	comment	Only for a court case. He goes back to normal the following series.
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Shameless (UK) / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Shameless (UK) / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Rare in Chatsworth - casual sex is a very common occurrence for most everybody who grows up there. The best examples below are all police officers from outside of the estate: Tony, who has a massive crush on Fiona Gallagher - a single photo of the two of them together at some party is plastered all over his house multiple times. He also continually hits on her without success, and deeply resents her boyfriend Steve for this reason. Tom can't stop perving on hot fellow officer Carrie, and turns into a total creepster stalker after Debbie fucks him off. Stan is an old romantic and a loser in love, making several highly embarrassing proclamations of love to Yvonne. Unlike the other two, Yvonne actually gives him a chance, and the two become a happy, long-term couple.
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Shameless (UK) / int_aa4cbf9a	type	My Local
Shameless (UK) / int_aa4cbf9a	comment	My Local: The Jockey, a filthy, derelict shithole of a pub where most of the main characters hang out or work, and find themselves heading to at least once per episode. The biggest amenity on the estate, next to the shop and the brothel.
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Shameless (UK) / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Shameless (UK) / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Frank's 'data not information' speech in Series 2, during which he convinces the social workers that him being recorded as dead is a computer error and that Liam is being properly taken care of by Fiona, preventing him from being taken into care. Frank's opening monologues from series 5 onwards also count.
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Shameless (UK) / int_ad1c3459	type	Big Badass Rig
Shameless (UK) / int_ad1c3459	comment	Big Badass Rig: Norma drives an enormous blue road-train. In particular, she rather amusingly chases Kev's Ford Escort down the M62 in it, nose-to-tail.
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Shameless (UK) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Shameless (UK) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: After The Jockey is looted and ransacked by the pubgoers. Frank's jaw drops a mile: Paddy has an Oh Crap moment upon realizing that Maureen has lured Mandy into a trap. His life is never the same again afterwards.
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Shameless (UK) / int_ae422bac	type	Fake Kill Scare
Shameless (UK) / int_ae422bac	comment	Doesn't count as a Fake Kill Scare, as Frank is the only person around when Neville collapses - he coldly leaves Neville to die in the freezing cold rain, content and happy in the belief that he'll finally be rid of his dad forever.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Shameless (UK) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: The three Maguire girls - Mandy, Karen and Kelly - aren't at all bad looking for council estate untermensch.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Shameless (UK) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Carl laps up the chance to have a secret sexual affair with the hot, slutty mother of his girlfriend. He promptly gets into big trouble when she ditches her shotgun-wielding, mentally unstable husband to be with him.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Shameless (UK) / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Micky allows his parents and his brothers to boss him around, belittle him and saddle him with menial tasks every single day. He even takes full time care of baby Cilla, while trying to deal drugs and collect debts at the same time.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Shameless (UK) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Nearly every family on the estate is guilty of this to varying degrees. The worst one turns out to be young Aidan's mother; a cold, selfish shell of a person who reveals her deep-seated hatred and resentment of her son, after he goes to the trouble of tracking her down. Frank Gallagher's workaholic, old-style trade unionist, who abused Frank growing up and is shown, in true 1950s-60s style, hitting him with a shoe for misbehaviour.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b1b83670	type	Oops! I Forgot I Was Married
Shameless (UK) / int_b1b83670	comment	Oops! I Forgot I Was Married: Kev proposes to Veronica while drunk. It takes a while for him to confess to her that he never divorced his first wife, Roxy, who was a violent alcoholic who is in prison for GBH but still very much in love with him. Veronica is actually fine with this and they have a fake wedding just so they don't disappoint Veronica's mother and more importantly get wedding gifts, particularly Veronica's dad's money which would help them pay off most of their house in a right-to-buy scheme.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Shameless (UK) / int_b486877f	comment	Actually eleven: he fathers a child with Monica's mother at one of Monica's birthday parties.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Shameless (UK) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!:
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Shameless (UK) / int_b545453b	type	Internal Homage
Shameless (UK) / int_b545453b	comment	Internal Homage: In the last episode of series 6, Debbie finally falls for Mark, and they end up stripping off and having sex up against the kitchen cupboards, in the same spot Steve and Fiona did aaaaall the way back in series 1. Debbie even grabs hold of an open drawer exactly like Fiona. The show's first opening sequence - with the Chatsworth residents partying and boozing around a burning car, before all scattering and running off to evade the Police - is repeated in the final moments of the very last episode, along with Frank's dialogue about the most vital necessity in life.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Shameless (UK) / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements:
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Shameless (UK) / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
Shameless (UK) / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Chesney's cute cousin Sita starts off as a frigid, devoted Muslim, but soon discards her religious principles for tits, make-up, glamour and sex, mostly thanks to Carl The Casanova.
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Shameless (UK) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Shameless (UK) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: This really takes off during one episode in series 7, where Ian shags Micky in his house, and Maxine blows Carl in the Jockey toilets. Ian and Maxine then cast off their admirers and start having an affair, culminating in Ian receiving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Carl. Also Frank/Sheila/Karen, Frank/Sheila/Monica, Frank/Libby/Monica...
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Shameless (UK) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Everyone's a little selfish to some degree, but this is Monica's defining trait. She abandoned her children and didn't even so much as send a birthday card, then when she returns she whines repeatedly because they don't want her there (with good reason, she did leave them after all), and then begs for sympathy when they forget her birthday (despite the fact that she never cared about their's and had been gone for so long they didn't know when her birthday was), then during the 'love triangle' between her, Noorma, and Frank, she basically just goes with whichever one buys her things. When Noorma mistook (or at least she claimed) Frank's attempt to steal from her as rape, Monica ignores and brushes off Noorma's trauma, telling her to go make her some food and let her watch the rest of her show, then when Frank is clearly distressed at the possibility of going to jail for a crime he didn't commit, she tells him off for whining about his troubles and acting as if its all about him. One has to wonder what Noorma sees in her, or why she was so determined to win her back.
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Shameless (UK) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Shameless (UK) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision S-Strike: Yvonne isn't very impressed when Frank fails to notice that she's been gone for three years. Yvonne is also very frequent and very good with Precision F-Strikes in general, thanks to her harsh northern accent and her vicious Rottweiler personality.
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Shameless (UK) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Shameless (UK) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Lip flies off the handle and beats his father Frank to a bloody pulp in the middle of the street, after finding out about Frank and Karen's affair. He does it again later after realizing his mate Jack robbed the Cash and Carry.
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Shameless (UK) / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Shameless (UK) / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Karen, at least in the earlier series, in which she gave blow jobs to practically anybody for no real reason. In particular, she has a sexually-charged affair with Frank - not only the father of her boyfriend Lip, but also the boyfriend of her own mother Sheila. She calms down a lot as she gets older and eventually gets married. She still cheats on Jamie with Joe though, and is visibly entertained and curious at the thought of sleeping with Dom, until he fucks up with Ruby.
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Shameless (UK) / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Shameless (UK) / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Plenty of examples of this throughout the course of the series. Maxine Donnelly, after becoming a major protagonist during series 7, just disappears into scotch mist after the series ends, which is quite jarring. Nobody ever mentions her again. Her brother Bruce, popular bartender and football team manager, also vanishes at the same time with no explanation or obvious replacement. Donny and Joey Maguire. OK, they never had much screentime, and all they ever did was hang around looking menacing, but you still can't help noticing that they just dropped off the face of the earth after series 4. In future episodes, whether their existence is acknowledged or not zigzags Depending on the Writer. Norma makes several overblown, emotional yet failed attempts to leave the Gallagher family and Chatsworth, but keeps coming back as she cares too much about them. She promptly disappears after series 6, with no exit scene or explanation, and is never heard from again. Mark, handsome and charming student of (implied) one of the Manchester universities, who becomes Debbie's boyfriend in series 6, does not return for series 7, which makes sense: with Debbie in the army, there was no need for him to hang around a rough sink estate.
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Shameless (UK) / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Shameless (UK) / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: Frank, after wallowing in self-pity just after Stella and Liam are taken into care, promptly mans up and puts much effort into changing his ways to appear a good parent and get them back. A couple of episodes later he's back to normal because, well, he just wouldn't be Frank Gallagher if he'd stayed sober.
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Shameless (UK) / int_c80c751d	type	Guy on Guy Is Hot
Shameless (UK) / int_c80c751d	comment	Guy-on-Guy Is Hot: Ian and his assortment of male lovers.
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Shameless (UK) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Shameless (UK) / int_c868a42a	comment	Frank undergoes a similar development as the series goes by. He's portrayed as a feckless, lazy, workshy, and selfish alcoholic from day 1, but it's clear that Frank is a lot brighter than he seems, and that there might be reasons for his behaviour and lifestyle. His abusive relationship with his father, in particular, suggests that he might've turned to alcohol and dossing about at least in part because he never believed in himself or felt part of the system. He also shows a more sympathetic side when dealing with his kids: its clear that deep down, he does love them, even if most of the time he's drinking their child benefits down the pub. He saves Liam from being taken into care in series 2, is there for Debbie in times of emotional distress, and assures Ian that he loves him even though he's not biologically his father. Essentially, the Frank of series 1-7 is incompetent because he is self-indulgent and unconcerned. From series 7 onwards however, Frank's bitter, lazy, and selfish traits are maximized: he's cursing the sight of his kids and by series 11 actively ranting about how they've slowed him down his whole life. Although this may be a bit of Fridge Brilliance: as his children leave, he becomes more despondent as he realises there's nobody left to leach off/wipe up his messes. There's also another dimension to Frank: he starts off as a scummy, alcoholic pub parasite with too much to say, taking cheap shots at those in power (such as Tony Blair) to get attention and more often than not is completely hypocritical. However as the series goes on he becomes far more like some unsung working-class hero poet, versed in many different socio-political-economic-historical topics and able to deliver rousing speeches to stir up both the audience and the people of Chatsworth into raging against the system.
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Shameless (UK) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Shameless (UK) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Series 6 marks the beginning of a very noticeable transition from relatively light-hearted comedy to dramedy. Community loyalty to one another becomes non-existent, and some very dark storylines are explored, such as Paddy's forced heroin addiction and Karen's bipolar disorder.
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Shameless (UK) / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Shameless (UK) / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Kelly Ball, former hobo, junkie and now prostitute.
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Shameless (UK) / int_d1673f5c	type	Bad Humor Truck
Shameless (UK) / int_d1673f5c	comment	Bad Humor Truck: The Maguires use an ice cream van as a front for dealing drugs and give Frank a job on it. ("If someone asks for a smartie...give them a pill. If someone asks for a polo...give them a pill.") Backfires somewhat when Frank takes some himself and ends up giving pills to an old woman who wanted some actual smarties.
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Shameless (UK) / int_d171a8c1	type	Evil Debt Collector
Shameless (UK) / int_d171a8c1	comment	Evil Debt Collector: Two of them rock up in the earlier series and make the Gallaghers' lives absolute hell, as they trash the house and take furniture while Frank evades them at every turn.
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Shameless (UK) / int_d2086e23	type	Unprovoked Pervert Payback
Shameless (UK) / int_d2086e23	comment	Unprovoked Pervert Payback: Teenage Ian becomes a marked man on the estate when Mandy Maguire sets her ferocious brothers on him, after he turns her down for sex.
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Shameless (UK) / int_d5f35258	type	Adventures in Comaland
Shameless (UK) / int_d5f35258	comment	Adventures in Comaland: Frank goes through several of these. In particular, after falling off his stool and cracking his skull open, he enters an alternate reality where he stumbles through life as a major celebrity, with Ian as his alpha male, heterosexual PR agent and proud son.
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Shameless (UK) / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Shameless (UK) / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Plenty of these abound, mainly concerning Frank, who, once in a blue moon, actually does express true, unconditional love for his kids. He has a thing for hugging his sons in celebration after they've headbutted him and broken his nose. Subverted with Carl when he leaves the estate for good. Carl and Frank sorrowfully hug and embrace each other, with tears streaming down their faces, all while swearing at and professing their utter hatred for one another.
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Shameless (UK) / int_d848560f	type	UnusualEuphemism
Shameless (UK) / int_d848560f	comment	Actually, she loses her virginity to oddball religious freak Luke (or at least it's heavily implied), but the Tom storyline is definitely her first real relationship, and probably the first time anyone seriously considers Debbie having... hooked up a power coupling.
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Shameless (UK) / int_daee232f	type	Who's Your Daddy?
Shameless (UK) / int_daee232f	comment	Who's Your Daddy?: Ian's parentage is come into question when Debbie looks at the blood types of the family, leading him on a hunt for his real father and possibly an escape from the Chatsworth Estate. Turns out his dad is exactly like Frank, only he also owns the pub he constantly gets wasted at.
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Shameless (UK) / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
Shameless (UK) / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Micky Maguire, at least at the beginning.
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Shameless (UK) / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Shameless (UK) / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Lip Gallagher, so much so that his real name is practically forgotten by all of his friends and family. Although it appears he does use his proper name at university.
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Shameless (UK) / int_de9adaf5	type	Replacement Sibling
Shameless (UK) / int_de9adaf5	comment	Replacement Sibling: Fiona, the oldest of the Gallagher children, plays the role of matriarch and promoted parent for the first two series. As time progresses and people leave the estate, this role filters downwards to Ian, Debbie and eventually Carl.
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Shameless (UK) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Shameless (UK) / int_df968cf	comment	Insurance Fraud: In the first series Lip earns extra money by filing out fake insurance claims for people. In series 6 after the Kash & Karry burns down Yvonne deliberately floods the stock room so she can claim extra insurance. Steve and Fiona setting fire to their own house in the series 1 finale.
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Shameless (UK) / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Shameless (UK) / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: This is how Mandy Maguire meets her end
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Shameless (UK) / int_e268e2	type	The Clan
Shameless (UK) / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: The Maguire family, who have a long, historical crime dynasty. See also The Irish Mob.
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Shameless (UK) / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Shameless (UK) / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Frank's Father Neville Gallagher has one of these moments, miraculously surviving a heart attack that had been previously implied to be fatal. Doesn't count as a Fake Kill Scare, as Frank is the only person around when Neville collapses - he coldly leaves Neville to die in the freezing cold rain, content and happy in the belief that he'll finally be rid of his dad forever.
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Shameless (UK) / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Shameless (UK) / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Monica Gallagher, for the most part, is portrayed as deeply confused, mentally damaged and manic depresssive, and wanting of love from Frank and her children, despite everything that's happened. By the time she returns in series 8, she is a cold, shameless, emotionless sociopath who sees what's left of her family as purely a meal ticket for monetary gain. She doesn't even try to hide it. Frank undergoes a similar development as the series goes by. He's portrayed as a feckless, lazy, workshy, and selfish alcoholic from day 1, but it's clear that Frank is a lot brighter than he seems, and that there might be reasons for his behaviour and lifestyle. His abusive relationship with his father, in particular, suggests that he might've turned to alcohol and dossing about at least in part because he never believed in himself or felt part of the system. He also shows a more sympathetic side when dealing with his kids: its clear that deep down, he does love them, even if most of the time he's drinking their child benefits down the pub. He saves Liam from being taken into care in series 2, is there for Debbie in times of emotional distress, and assures Ian that he loves him even though he's not biologically his father. Essentially, the Frank of series 1-7 is incompetent because he is self-indulgent and unconcerned. From series 7 onwards however, Frank's bitter, lazy, and selfish traits are maximized: he's cursing the sight of his kids and by series 11 actively ranting about how they've slowed him down his whole life. Although this may be a bit of Fridge Brilliance: as his children leave, he becomes more despondent as he realises there's nobody left to leach off/wipe up his messes. There's also another dimension to Frank: he starts off as a scummy, alcoholic pub parasite with too much to say, taking cheap shots at those in power (such as Tony Blair) to get attention and more often than not is completely hypocritical. However as the series goes on he becomes far more like some unsung working-class hero poet, versed in many different socio-political-economic-historical topics and able to deliver rousing speeches to stir up both the audience and the people of Chatsworth into raging against the system. Sheila's voice and mannerisms become much more exaggerated after series 1. However this can also be attributed simply to her deteriorating mental state as the series goes on. Marty goes from a psychotic, unhinged criminal with some mother issues (although who wouldn't have some with Carol as a mum) in the early series, to an overgrown baby with a mental age of 6 when he returns to the estate in later series.
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Shameless (UK) / int_e6aea6b2	type	Daddy DNA Test
Shameless (UK) / int_e6aea6b2	comment	Daddy DNA Test: The Gallagher siblings are stunned to work out, from routine blood tests, that Ian is actually only their half-brother and not Frank's biological son. Frank and Monica themselves knew all along though; they just couldn't be arsed to explain it... Averted. Joe waves an envelope in Jamie's face, claiming it contains DNA results proving he is blood related to baby Connor. It later turns to be a gas bill he was using to bluff and taunt Jamie. Connor's true parentage is never explicitly proven or tested, and is more or less buried completely after Joe's death.
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Shameless (UK) / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Shameless (UK) / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase:
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Shameless (UK) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Shameless (UK) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Tony the copper has a moment in series 1 where he calmly scares off two baliffs threatening Fiona and the Gallagher children.
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Shameless (UK) / int_eed6d1c3	type	The Glasses Gotta Go
Shameless (UK) / int_eed6d1c3	comment	The Glasses Gotta Go: When Frank is prescribed glasses for his failing eyesight, he becomes vain and self-conscious and attempts to hide it as much as possible, causing the regulars at The Jockey to laugh even harder at him when he puts them on. His irrational vanity, in spite of the fact he stinks of piss and has been wearing the same clothes since 1993, is frequently lampshaded.
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Shameless (UK) / int_eff65ef6	type	Chained to a Bed
Shameless (UK) / int_eff65ef6	comment	Chained to a Bed: The main feature of Frank and Sheila's sex life, played for comedy. She also ties copper Tony to the bed and gives him forced handjobs. Used much more chillingly when Paddy is chained to a bed, deprived of food and forcibly injected with heroin, over several torturous days, by psychotic nurse Maureen.
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Shameless (UK) / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
Shameless (UK) / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: First Fiona, followed by Debbie and most recently Liam.
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Shameless (UK) / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Shameless (UK) / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Micky Maguire's "Executive Transport" business venture; a shocking pink ("IT'S FUSS-CHIAA!!") Cadillac limousine. A self-contained setting of many hetero and homosexual encounters, drug deals and temporary housing whenever people fall on hard times. Lillian even turns it into a mobile brothel at one point. Kevin's clapped out old Ford Escort XR 3 is host to several amusing getaways and dramatic escapes, before the whole thing literally breaks in half one night. And, of course, the Gallaghers' camper van, which doesn't run for the first series and basically doubles as their spare room.
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Shameless (UK) / int_f34a4c1e	type	Lower-Class Lout
Shameless (UK) / int_f34a4c1e	comment	Lower-Class Lout: The entire premise of the show, although most of the main characters are portrayed fairly sympathetically, until the last few series where the universe becomes a funhouse.
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Shameless (UK) / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Shameless (UK) / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Micky has this face-off with former lover Ian, after being the butt of his jokes for too long.
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Shameless (UK) / int_f8b893e5	type	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Shameless (UK) / int_f8b893e5	comment	Get Rich Quick Scheme: Most of the estate's residents spend their lives doing this in various ways, only to end up bitterly disappointed most of the time. Shane Maguire in particular does nothing but get rich quick schemes; varying from ripping off brothel punters, to clamping cars, to filming and distributing pornography, to reselling stolen, expired food products to schools abd finally, homebrewing alcohol.
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Shameless (UK) / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Shameless (UK) / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Frank and Kash both fake their deaths to avoid debts, in unrelated incidents.
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Shameless (UK) / int_f9f2c33	type	RunningGag
Shameless (UK) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Shane headbutting, punching and/or slapping Billy every time he makes even the most veiled reference to his sex life with Mimi.
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Shameless (UK) / int_fb3576b2	type	TheDogBitesBack
Shameless (UK) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Shane Maguire has some sort of dramatic face-off with both his father Paddy and his elder brother Jamie, who regard him as a clown. The former beats him to a pulp, but issues a grovelling public plea for forgiveness afterwards. He succeeds in shooting the latter in the foot, as well as generally fucking with Jamie and his businesses.
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Shameless (UK) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Shameless (UK) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Lillian is the only one celebrating when Patty is ousted as a benefits fraud. Lillian is a frequent abuser of this trope throughout the series.
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